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But that hope is that the artists stand firm and insist on the truths they perceive. Not the ones they abstract for profit but the truths of the living moment.
A Force of Nature - For David
October 31st, 2011
Two weeks ago David and I met at a dive bar in the deep Richmond. Pat came over. Smart guy with lots of knowledge. Pain too. He grieved a lot over the state of the world. Iraq. Afghanistan. Somalia. Really felt it personally and expressed guilt because he saw it, ...
Hello to the 15,000
June 14th, 2011
A spring day here, a rare commodity in a Bay Area climate recently prone to cold, wind and wintery, if snowless, storms. But record snow in the Sierras. The reservoirs up on Mt. Tam full months ago. Global colding vs. its evil twin.
We just got word that ...
Moscow International Film Festival
June 5th, 2011
The Moscow International Film Festival has just announced A TRIBUTE TO ROB NILSSON, a Retrospective of films by San Francisco director/writer/actor Rob Nilsson to be held during their 33rd annual festival June 23-July 2, 2011. The Retrospective will feature NORTHERN LIGHTS, co-directed by John Hanson (Camera d’Or at Cannes, ...
New Classes
April 25th, 2011
Hello to the 15,000,
Here are two of the new classes I’m teaching at Film Acting Bay Area, which meets at Expressions College, Emeryville, CA. Join up and work with me, or tell your friends about it. I’m also offering personal one on one sessions with directors, players. and writers. For ...
The 15,000
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I've always liked the slogan, "Opinion rules the world." The 15,000 is a chronicle of opinions I'd like to have more heft in the neighborhood. I've lived long enough to realize that silence has great value. I think it's the great growing space pregnant in the seed before it blooms. And then you talk.
Every month I'll be writing on a topic related to our films: production, distribution, exhibition. Or I'll follow inspiration, desperation and other burrs under the saddle to talk about cinema, art, society ... the gamut.
I'm hoping to hear your views. I only know my own and so I'm at a disadvantage. You are 15,000 and I am one. The only way we can make progress is if you are as candid as I try to be. If you make an honest effort to cut through the mist and tell the truths... read more
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